China-South Africa Deal

Reuters

Published: October 26, 1989

THE HAGUE, Oct. 25—
China, which has traditionally shunned ties with the white supremacist Government of South Africa, is buying coal from Pretoria, a private Dutch group said today. The first of 10 shipments was unloaded in the southern province of Guangdong in June, according to the Shipping Research Bureau, a body that monitors the oil and coal trade. The bureau said the Chinese order, handled by a Hong Kong trading house, was shipped through Maputo and Mozambique. China also bought a coal gasification plant from South Africa for about $4 million, it said.